IT 450 - Cybersecurity Analysis

Credits: 5
Covers cybersecurity analysis from initial implementation to performing actual analysis of potential incidents. Students will perform a variety of tasks, including weekly monitoring and analysis of network traffic, creating tickets, and resolving them.

Enrollment Requirement: IT 340 ; and IT 360  (or concurrent enrollment); and admission into a Information Technology-Cybersecurity and Networking, BAS  program; or instructor consent.

Course Fee: $50.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Compare the methods used to create signature-, reputation-, and anomaly-based alert rules.
2. Trace and validate reported alerts to identify false positives and potential incidents.
3. Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.
4. Provide technical summary of findings in accordance with established reporting procedures.
5. Identify placement and implementation options for network monitoring software and hardware.

1. Analyze the security vulnerabilities of an organization’s information technology resources. 
2. Plan and implement security measures and practices for an organization’s information technology resources. 

 

College-wide Outcomes

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.